Suitcase.



I. H. LYONS & R. J. GRUENBERG.

SUITCASE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, 1013.

1,127,366. Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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IRVING H. LYONS AND RAOUI J. GRU'ENBERG, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,

ASSIGN'ORS TO SANFORD F. WALTER, OF

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SUITCASE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed April 5, 1912, Seria1 No. 688,650. *Divided and this application filed April 18,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IRVING H. LYONS and RAonL J. GRUENBERG, citizens of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suitcases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of boxes which are usually made of paperboard or card-board and are commonly employed by clothiers and tailors for delivering suits of clothes, skirts, shirt-waists, etc.,

i and are therefore sometimes designated as suit-cases. Boxes of this character are commonly made of two simllar parts, one telescoping within the other.

One of the objects of our invention is to provide a Slllt-CilSB or receptacle with a garment holder or hanger upon which the garment may be arranged and prevented from shifting in the box or-be suspended from one end thereof so that the garment will be prevented from becoming wrinkled, and'also to provide suitable handles by which the suit box may be carried, and which will cooperate with the hanger to reinforce those parts of the box which sustain the weight. The form of handles which we employ are disclosed in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,027,385, granted to Raoul J.

Gruenberg, May .21, 1912.

The present application is a division of our prior application Serial No. 688,650,

filed April 5, 1912.

In the accompanying drawings'forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a suit-box embodying our invention, having the cover removed to show the position of the hanger and the manner of aflixing it to one end of the box; Fig. 2, is a front elevation of the same with the corner hooks unlocked and the parts flattened out into a knocked-down condition; F ig. 9 is a vertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4, is an enlarged detail in perspective of the parts of the box adjacent to the handle and garment support; Figs. 5 and 6, are frontand end elevations of the closed box, showing the position of the hanger in dotted lines; Fig. 7 isa front elevation of the suitbox with cover removed and showing a suit arranged upon the hanger; Fig. 8, is avertical sectional view on the line 8-8 of Fig.

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7 and Fig. 9, a vertical section of the cover. I

The suit-box is constructed of card-board or paste-board, or the equivalent, having rectangular sides 1, and edge-members 3, which are preferably made integrally therewith and then creased along the lines of juncture 4.- to form lines of fiexure or bending-joints, so the edge-members may be swung from the fiat position of Fig. 2, into the folded position shown in Fig. l, and locked by inserting the hooked tabs 5 through the slits 6. The cover illustrated in Fig. 9, is constructed in the same manner and is made the proper size 22 sigu'gly telescope the box as shown in We provide both the cover and the garment-containing member with handles which Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

are preferably made of card-board reinforced with canvas, the base or securing portion comprising plate-form members 8 and 9, connected by a bending joint which.

extends along the joint between the edge and side members of the box, the members being tween the edge and side members of'the box,

the handle of the cover being constructed and fastened in the same manner. The handle, as described, is the same as that covered in the patent above mentioned, but in the present case the member 9, is preferably prolonged across the edge-member into cooperative relation with the hanger in a manner hereinafter described.

The garment hanger is preferably cut or stamped from a sheet of card-board or other suitable material possessing the desirable qualities of rigidity or stiffness and light ness, the body portion 12, being substantially of rectangular shape with the upper edge rounded at the corners, as indicated at 12, and over which upper edge a garment such as a coat, shirt-waist, or other article of wearing apparel may be hung in the manand brought tongue 14-, creased along the line to for a bending-joint or transverse lineof flexure with the continuation of the tongue 14 by which it is secured to an edge-member of the box.

We have found thatit is important to re-- inforce the edge-member which sustains" the weight or load-carrying stress exerted thereon by the downward pull of the garments on thehanger." We have, therefore, taken advantage of theplate-membersof the handl e and prolong the member 9, across the edge-member 3, so that it will underlie the entire attaching end 14 of the hanger tongue. When the parts are riveted or glned together there is formed a reinforced portion having three plies, extending throughout the extent of the attaching tongue portion 14 as illustrated in the enlargeddetail the additional function of'. providing a comshown i'n'Fig. 4. The handle members are thus brought into cooperative relation with the attaching tongue of the hanger and serve poimd reinforce to sustain the stresses brought upon the edge-member at all times when the box 'is in vertical position whether or not it is being carried by the handles. It

.will be seen that there is not onlythe added stifi'ening and rigidity afforded by the threeply thickness of material across the attach-. ing surface, but ,that the vertically disposed web 14,- acts afterjthe mannerof a rib or beam across an intermediate part of the ture is independent of the plate 99f the angle-form of the handle; and, moreover, that the parallel parts or plates 8, and 14, connected by the 'plate), constitute a channel-bar sectional form, theseparalted vertical plate-form port lbad-carryingstress. Thisreinforcing struca ip portions 10,

- which may, in'some cases,' e omitted.

When the parts of our suit-box are unfoldionsbeing located in "parallel planes and in the direction of the ed and flattened out, as shown in Fig. 2, the bending-joints betweenthe plates 8 and 9, and between the tongue parts 14 and 'lt are straightened out so that the body 12 of the hanger. will bear against the side-member 1,

so that they may be compactly packed in knocked-down form for shipment and storage. 7 A

We have described in detail the construction illustrated in the drawings for the purpose of disclosing an embodiment of our invention, but it is evident that changes may be made therein within the purview of our claim and withoutv departing from the real spirit of our invention.

We claim In a garment package, the; combination with a foldable box having an'edge-member jointed with the box-side, of a carrying member having a handle, projecting throng a slot in" theedge-member at the joint with downagainst the edge-member and box-side when the box "is unfolded into a fiat form,

and being spaced away from both said-edgemember and side-member when the box is folded.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses' IRVING H. LYONS.

v Witnesses;

- S. 'F. WAL'nnR,

M. -WHERs'iEn'L' RAOUL J? enunnnnno. 

